Star profile
Zeta Dorado
Nearby starWhat is Zeta Dorado
Zeta Doradus lies 38 light-years away, in the southern constellation of the Golden Dolphin, and shares many traits with a younger Sun: F7-type, barely six hundred million years old, with a habitable zone stretching from 0.89 to 2.07 astronomical units. A disk of cometary dust surrounds the primary, and in 2025 astrometric measurements revealed hints of a giant planet still awaiting confirmation.
Where it is and when to see it
Zeta Dorado lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Zeta Dorado
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.71
- Distance
- 38.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 76.378° · Dec -57.473°
- Catalogue
- HIP 23693 · HD 33262
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Other stars in Dorado
Dorado has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Dorado3.30
- Beta Dorado3.76
- Gamma Dorado4.26
- Delta Dorado4.34
- HIP 278904.65
- Theta Dorado4.81
- Eta 2 Dorado5.01
- Nu Dorado5.06